Hope this doesn't sound like a heresy. But using YouTube on the front page to demonstrate screenshots along with other advertisements may not be that bad. Could be like 1 minute. I can make a video if a script is provided and may be mixed down with some developers' speeches.
I can make something like this one below which take 2 days (but for this I can work on this much longer), nothing related just to give some inspirations and showing my capability so you don't expect a fully commercial grade advertisement, or may be we can? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT2yQcrEpMA On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Gregory Casamento <[email protected]> wrote: > Since we're talking about these things, it might not be a bad idea to > have the most important themes presented on the front page: > > 1) the default theme... > 2) the windows theme > 3) the GNOME theme once it's finished. > > This way people could easily see GNUstep's flexibility without needing > to dig into the website too deeply. > > GC > > On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 7:44 AM, David Chisnall <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 4 Dec 2010, at 08:31, Banlu Kemiyatorn wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I don't think the first screenshot should point to a development >>>> application. It should point to user stuff. >>> >>> At least please give a counter-thesis. >> >> I agree with Riccardo here (it does happen sometimes!). The very first >> thing that we want to show people is what they can do with GNUstep. Later, >> we want to show them how they can do these things. Screenshots of themed >> user apps show the what, shots of Gorm show the how. >> >> Most importantly, if we show developer apps then it gives the impression >> that developer apps are all that we have - that GNUstep is used solely for >> developing tools for developing with GNUstep. There are a lot of open >> source projects that are like this, and we don't want to be lumped into that >> category. >> >> Banlu Kemiyatorn wrote: >>> >>> Also think that the purpose of the project should not so directly be >>> creating a free version of Cocoa but something that will survive on >>> its own and have the Cocoa cloning as a supporting secondary purpose. >> >> I think this is also important. In Étoilé, we use quite a few things that >> are GNUstep-specific. We want to reassure people that GNUstep is a capable >> development environment in its own right, not just a Cocoa clone. >> >> David >> >> -- Sent from my Cray X1 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss-gnustep mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep >> > > > > -- > Gregory Casamento - GNUstep Lead/Principal Consultant, OLC, Inc. > yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa > (240)274-9630 (Cell) > -- .----. Banlu Kemiyatorn /.../\...\ Free Software Yogi |.../ \...| 漫画家 GZSC |../ \..| http://groundzerostudiocomplex.blogspot.com \/ \/ http://qstx.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
